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A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I just want to lobby for God.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.